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Show THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER. Business Basis For Dairy UTAH BUTTER REGISTERS HIGH IN OFFICIAL TEST Utah butter scored 90.58 per cent in the January contest conducted by By LeROY E. CARROLL the western office of the dairy diviIt is just as much business to sell sion of the department of agriculmilk and cream as mowing machines, ture. sugar, meat, dress goods, drugs, or British Co Percentages follow: Then why is it not confections. Or- lumbia, 92.5; California, 91.87; just as esesntial for the dairyman egon, 90.72; Washington, 90.58; to know his exact financial standing Utah, 90.58; Nevada, 90.41; Idaho, as these other merchants to know theirs? While the year is new, the days short and cold, stock taking can be carried on in the dairy at its very best. It is an undisputed fact that January and June are the two best months of the year for dairying. During January and the first part of February, when the cows coats are prime and they are accustomed to their winter quarters on full feed and giving maximum returns, the opportunity is ripe to use the scales and tester and weed out the boarders. Some may argue, we havent the equipment, but that is no excuse at A pair of 25 pound spring all. balances can be obtained from any of our leading stores for about 35 cents, and a milk sheet can be made of any ordinary sheet of paper or obtained from any creamery free of charge. Each cows milk may vary in richness from one milking to another, it may be high one milking The weather, and low the next. the cows health, water and feed, So it is not have their influence. fair to judge a cow by one milkTherefore, the milk of each ing. cow should be weighed morning and Provide a small jar or botnight. tle for each cow with her name and A small fruit jar is number on it. suitable. Beginning at the first milking, weigh each cows milk separately and write the weight upon After pouring the record sheet. milk back and forth from one pail to another, put about of a cup full into the jar. The second sample, or the next milking, is added in the same manner. Have these samples tested at your local creamery, which they will probably do free of charge. From the test and your milk sheet the gross income of each cow is obtained. Estimate nearly as possible the cost of the feed consumed by each cow per day, deduct this from your gross income, this will give you the net income. When your net income does not pay for your time and trouble, or even balance the feed bill, the place for that cow is out in the straw or pummy pile, and see to it next winter that she doesnt get the chance to rob your paying cows. Now feed the cow that is paying the boarders in your herd, a grain ration, and the time wasted in milking the boarders, use in currying the producer and watch your cream check increase. one-four- th There is a virtue in the cow; she Is full of goodness; the whole landscape looks out of her soft eyes.- - John Burroughs. Five gallons of moonshine whisky was found concealed in the milk cans of an eastern milkman. They used to claim that milkmen carried a certain per cent of water in theif cans, but moonshine is a new one. Verily we are a progressive people. His Faith In An Old Remedy. 90.25; Montana, 89.5; 88.9. Cheese scores were: Colorado, California, 91; Idaho, 90.75; Washington, 89.-5- 0; Montana, 89; Utah, 88.80. committee to see that your cows are at the place designated and your neighbor notified likewise. Thus the tubercular death shall be fought and conquered. Section 197 of the compiled laws of the State of Utah for 1917, plainly states: Every person who sell3 milk to a dairy and every person engaged in the dairy business in the state, shall cause every cow milked by him to be examined and subjected to the tubercular test by a competent person or an inspector of the United States Bureau of Animal Industry, to ascertain if any such cows are infected with tuberculosis. This examinotion is brought about through the efforts of the farm buwith the Extenreau sion service, and the people of the Basin are very fortunate in obtaining this tuberculosis test at so nominal a fee of 25 cents per head. The exact dates are not yet known, but will be announced soon. Farm bureau members should keep in touch with their respective local officers. HUGE CHEESE GOES TO LONDON THE Legal Blanlis for Sale at Tills Office Farm Light & Power Plants The Western Electric Light and Power plant will light your buildings, and do your bamwork and housework too. It will bring to your farm all of the comforts and conveniences of city life. WH3TEROCKS HATCHERY Drop ns a card, or call us up and we will gladly give you more information concerning this wonderful plant. Melbourne, Australia, Jan. 19. The fish hatchery at Whiterocks (A. P.) Australia has sent to the is now running at nearly its full caBritish Empire Exhibition a mam- pacity. There will be fine lot of moth cheese weighing one and a fingerling trout for the Uintah Basin half tons. A photograph taken at streams as soon as it is possible to Pittsworth, where the cheese was take them to the streams and lakes. shows sixty school With all the hatching during the manufactured, children seated in it. Experts re- year the total capacity is 3,000,000 port that in spite of its enormous fish. size, the quality of the cheese will be perfect when it reaches London. Arriving home unexpectedly the husband found his wife perched raTRIPLET CALVES BORN ther lovingly in the lap of the family physician. Hurrying to the corA shorthorn cow of the H. C. ner grocery the husband ordered a Ruple ranch on Brush creek near barrel of apples sent to his home imVernal, on January 21, gave birth mediately, saying he had always to triplets, one heifer and two bull heard that an a will keep calves. They are all living and do- the doctor away.apple day ing fine. The average farmer of this section has one or more gates on his farm that could be greatly improved by a few minutes work. Think of them at your first leisure hour. More Power to Yon Vernal Electric Co. Vernal, Utah COOPERATION RA.SIN BOY CHOSEN ON U. A. C. TEAM FOR PORTLAND Kimball Slaugh, member of the sophomore class, Utah Agricultural college was chosen a member of the U. A. C. Dairy Products team attending the Portland, Oregon, livestock show in .November where he showed exceptional judgment in his line. Mr. Slaugh and David Moosman, both of Vernal, Utah, are holding excellent positions in the U. A. C. Dairy Products manufacturing plant. They are both charter members of U. A. C.s latest fraternal organiza- tion, the Lambda Iota Fraternity, with 22 charter members. TUBERCULOSIS TEST TO BE MADE IN UINTAH BASIN State Veterinarian Webb is being programed for a tour of the Uintah Basin testing milk cows. Has your cow been tested?. Do you know whether you are playing with i "death as .you use the product Do you from a tubercular cow? know the terrible toll paid by a careless civilization, when it fails to fight this dread disease? Would you allow your children to drink milk of a cow infected with tuberculosis? Would you allow your wife to use the butter and milk if you knew your cow was diseased? How are you going to find out? The State of Utah will do its part. County Agent E. Peterson will do his part, and it is now up to you to do your part. lUintah Basin dairy industry should be clean, absolutely 100 per cent straight goods. Your attention is now imperatively called to your duty. E. Peterson will cooperate with the state veternarian and program the communities of the Uintah Basin. When this is brought to your notice, you are appointed a with the firm of Woolf and Hall is more than a theory. As a practical example of this theory we are now contracting for our 1924 supply of wheat. Until we have contracted sufficient wheat to satisfy our 1924 demands we guarantee the grower who contracts with us, one dollar per bushel minimum price, together with a profit sharing bonus based upon the average price of flour for the year. As the price of flour goes up the grower gets the full benefit. For details of the contract, see WOOLF & HALL Operators of the UPALCO FLOOR MILL |